The title of The Sound and the Fury is based on lines in Macbeth, by William Shakespeare;

'"'Life"'"s just a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more; it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing.'"'

According to this Benjy, the narrator of this section of the book, is the idiot who is telling the tale, but Benjy is far from being an idiot. He seems to be able to sense everything through smell; many of these things are things that can"'"t be detected by anyone else.

The following phrase in Faulkner"'"s The Sound and the Fury alludes to many things throughout the entire novel;

'"'...Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn"'"t smell trees anymore, and I began to cry'"' (p.40)

An example of the modern hardcover book with dust ...

English: Just outside Wheldrake Strong smell of wo...

the SOUND and the FURY

When this quote takes place Benjy, Quentin, and T.P. are drunk at Caddy"'"s wedding off of sarsaparilla. T.P. puts a box up to the window so that Benjy can see Caddy at her wedding. He starts crying and yelling so T.P. and Quentin try to get him back in the cellar. In the process the fall down the stairs and T.P. and Quentin end up fighting. Caddie comes in and hugs Benjy, but she doesn"'"t smell like trees anymore so he cries.

This sentence is very disjointed which shows the stream-of-consciousness of a mentally handicapped person. Beginning the last three clauses with "'"and"'" is a rhetorical device called anaphora. This method draws attention to each individual clause and prevents them from running together. This repetition of "'"and"'" is also a polysyndeton, which is the repetition of conjunctions.

... the Fury, Faulkner made use of some elements of this technique. However, As I Lay Dying presents us with a far greater range of voices. Additionally, The Sound and the Fury provides a clearer distinction between unreliable and reliable narrators. Part Three of The Sound and the Fury is narrated by ...

... the book The Sound and the Fury (Larinde). He wrote twenty novels and many short stories (Zane 1). His greatest achievements were the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950, the National Book Award, and Pulitzer Prizes. All of ...

... and the consequences of clinging on to them. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner the authors show that stereotypes often lead to the inability to see the situation as a whole as well as the ...

... and the narrator's comments about her. In her youth she is described as a pretty with a sleek figure. She had been raised in a wealthy family. Her father never allowed her to socialize or be courted by any man. He believed "none of the ...

8 pages319Apr/20035.0

Students & Profs. say about us:

"Good news: you can turn to other's writing help. WriteWork has over 100,000 sample papers"